One of the most unforgettable scenes in Robert Zemeckis’ 1994 Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump almost never made it into the movie. The sequence where Tom Hanks’ character sets off on a spontaneous ...
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Forrest, played, of course, by Tom Hanks, is from the great state of Alabama, so there was no way anyone could construct a soundtrack of classic rock and roll tunes and not include "Sweet Home Alabama ...
“Forrest Gump” has an odd, essentially contradictory position in pop culture. But that befits an odd, sometimes contradictory movie. Thirty years after its July 1994 release, “Forrest Gump” remains ...
Tom Hanks recently revealed that one of Forrest Gump’s most iconic scenes might never have existed without his personal intervention. The scene, where Forrest sets off on a three-year cross-country ...